"Headin' South Come Spring"

I was parked behind this Airstream and my pickup window was rain

soaked so I decided to shoot this image through the window to create

an abstract. Thanks for taking the time to view and comment.

nice effect!! great b&w!

regards?

Alfredo

The next time you get an opportunity to try out this effect focus your camera on the water drops and let the outside image be out of focus. Take the photos both ways to see which you like better. I'm not sure which way is best but I would have liked to see this one that other way.

In every life a little rain must fall, even for the owner of an Airstream. Back in my youth of the 60s, my young wife and I impulsively desired a travel trailer. I reasoned that the design of the Airstream was so "old fashioned" that design and tooling had to have been amortized over many years and thus logically must be cheaper then the more "modern" square cornered trailers. How wrong youth can be. Pope's "in endless error hurled."

 

I like your photograph very much. It is an interesting take on life and Airstream. The suggestion to focus on the raindrops would make a different, but still interesting image. However this one is perfect as is. Good photographic instinct.

 

Gary

 

Very nice photo. I'm happy to read that this was your peekup window and not your lens covered in raindrops. Sure projects a gloomy mood. Any reason you did not straighten the image or am I too anal retentive?

William maybe the Airstream had low air in the right rear tire?

This is great and it sets me to daydreaming, too. I would love to just drive around the country, finding quaint little towns and vast wilderness; camera in hand...sigh. Back to work for me...maybe someday. Til then, I'll look at this and dream. :)

 

Leslie

After getting out my rolling ruler to check the parallelism of the trailer's top, I realized that it is level. The angle of the perspective makes the rear window look tilted. I think I gotta quit looking at the minutae. (Too much time spent with graduates of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara...they made great photo engineers, few artists.) I'm going to put that rolling ruler on E-Bay. This is a great photograph, Susan!

Why not just take off and travel? There was a great piece of prose called "I'd Pick More Daisies" about what one person would do if he/she could live his/her life over again (author is really unknown). The first few sentences say "If I had my life to live over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been on this trip. I know of very few things I would take seriously. I would take more trips, I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets..." Ahhh, if only I had read that before age 35....

It's a good one. Well seen. I often muse about how much we miss visually when all these things are put on a platter for us on a daily basis. I mean how many poeple would be thinking photo op here? To me this is what separates the interesting from the mundane. It doesn't take a whole lot to see a pretty picture and capture it. Just some technical expertise. But to make pictures of interest out of such mundane material, you have to SEE.

 

Now my only question is, "Why the hell are they waiting for spring to get out?" Leave now before the snow and nasty stuff starts to happen.

Thank you very much Susan, that good revision I take to him(you,them), but this to the end(purpose) .. a game is alone, each one can think democratically what wants, the anger that gives me is that it(he,she) does not even have gallery, and because of it colgue in my own(proper) one all, thank you very much as everything, cordial regards as(like) always

Did you manually focus? Came out great! (Rain, not show?)

Warm Greetings, Dave

Does heading to Colorado for the holidays count? :) We'll have a great time relaxing and just doing whatever we want for ten days...plan to have the cam out at all times :) Love the prose you included...what do you think, Susan?

 

Leslie

Nice shot Susan . Kind Regards Andrea

You made a good one here, Susan. 1000 words easy! Anyway, I expect to see the arrival abstact also. I imagine lot's of color, tall evergreens, chirping songbirds, and a blue sky. The proverbial, "I can see clearly now the rain is gone". Merry Christmas and best wishes! ~Sky

Great image :)

I've been gone for the better part of a week, as most of you know I lost my job a while back so I've been doing "day work", any rancher that needs help for a few days can call and I'll go help out, well this week I got a job feeding 800 head of cows by myself while the owner was gone. Now that I'm home I've got a lot of catch up to do here on PN. I just love that this image generated so many interesting stories and responses from everybody. I think we all daydream about the "freedom of the open road", I know I've got a lot of Gypsy in me and my life story has been pretty much about "wandering". This hobby we all share has many rewards and one of them for me is that I think of all of you as friends, so thanks Amigos for stopping by and I'll make a concerted effort to come visit and see all of your wonderful recent posts. And yes William, it's realatively level considering I was crouched upon my knees with my camera shoved up almost against the windshield with my right arm propped up on the steering wheel when I shot this......one of those "spur of the moment" creations.....hand held and in the "landscape dummy mode" no less!

The comment by William is interesting. Missi and I did some full time RV'ing for a couple of years. So, being a photographer and RV'er, this photo just looks closer on the right than the left and not tipped. With my history on the road, that's the way I see it. That may not be the case however.

Regards, Dave

Yer gonna' get new wipers before you leave - right? ...... (-;

Leslie, I say, "DO IT", too!! I've done random wandering road trips twice now ... and I can tell you that there's nothing like it. I avoid all interstates (except the ones that get me away from the DC area) ... and I always have a blast. Your kids would enjoy that kind of a trip on their summer break. They may argue with you beforehand, but they'll talk about "that trip" for the rest of their lives!

 

Susan, this is a fun shot ... and sometimes the best shots are the ones that we take on the spur of the moment. Makes me not want to take my tripod anywhere or wait for the right light. LOL!! Glad to hear that you're finding work here and there. I'm hoping that you'll find something more permanent soon!

"On the road again, can't wait to get on the road again....."

Hey You, thanks for the visit, I always love hearing from my Montana pal. Sounds like you're thinking about making some changes in your life. You're a wonderful person, Susan, just hang in there and it will come together. Maybe you just need to sit down in front of the fireplace and start putting together a nice book of cowboy poetry laced with your wonderful images of life in the Big Sky Country. I'm thinking about you, and wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Cheers! Chris

Merry Christmas

And a big Ho Ho Ho to Chris and WJ!

I'm fortunate to have become aware of your fine work through viewing a photograph by David Meyer (whose work i admire greatly...). I'm short of time tonight Susan, but had to tell you that this picture drew me in...

 

I like the crisp contrast between the sharply focused "airstream"/the lines in the windows, etc., and the wonderfuly out of focus rain. It's a grand meshing of the two with incredible result! I love b/w, I love all things metal... I love your photograph!